Law firm YulChon will partner with LG AI Research on a service to verify the sources and licenses of data used to train artificial intelligence (AI).
YulChon and LG AI Research on the 23rd signed a memorandum of understanding at the Textile Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to cooperate on the EXAONE Nexus service, which verifies AI training data sources and licenses. After the signing, they held a joint seminar on the theme of "The invisible legal risks of AI training data: licenses, copyright, and dispute response strategies."
EXAONE Nexus is a service that verifies and manages the sources and license legality of training data for an agent-based AI model built by LG AI Research. The two sides agreed to establish a cooperative system in AI training data compliance verification and legal advisory work.
The cooperation follows the rise of training data source, license, and copyright legality management as a key risk for corporations amid the spread of Generative AI. As regulatory discussions continue in Korea and abroad, including the Basic AI Act, the European Union (EU) AI Act, and AI-BOM, corporations face a need to ensure transparency in training data and to establish a risk management framework for legal risks.
The seminar was moderated by Choi Jun-young, a senior expert member at YulChon. Im Woo-hyeong, head of LG AI Research, Kang Seok-hoon, managing partner at YulChon, and Lee Jin-su, director-general for AI policy planning at the Ministry of Science and ICT, delivered opening remarks, a welcome speech, and congratulatory remarks.
In the first presentation, Lee Hwa-young, an executive director at LG AI Research, introduced the training data license management framework and compliance strategy used in AI development. In the second presentation, Daryl Lim, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, discussed fair use under U.S. copyright law and copyright risks in AI training.
Im Hyeong-ju, an attorney at YulChon, in the third presentation explained domestic and international dispute trends related to AI training data and response strategies for corporations. After the presentations, a general discussion was held, chaired by Son Seung-woo, an advisor at YulChon, with participants including Baek Young-jun, president of the Korea Academic Society of Industrial Security, Kim Do-seung, president of the Korean Association for the Personal Information Protection Act, and Park Seong-ho, an advisor at YulChon.
Managing partner Kang Seok-hoon said, "In the AI era, ensuring the legality of training data has become a core element of corporate competitiveness," adding, "YulChon will work with LG AI Research to present solutions to legal risks across AI training data."
Head Im Woo-hyeong said, "Transparent management of the sources and licenses of AI training data is the starting point for trustworthy AI," adding, "We will use EXAONE Nexus as a hub to spread an AI governance framework that combines technical and legal expertise."